Clinical update: management of stroke

Lancet

Volumn 369, Issue 9570, 2007, Pages 1330-1332

  Hankey, Graeme J ^a  

^a ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; CLOPIDOGREL; CYANOCOBALAMIN; DESMOTEPLASE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DISUFENTON SODIUM; FOLIC ACID; PYRIDOXINE; THROMBIN INHIBITOR; WARFARIN; XIMELAGATRAN;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HEADACHE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 34247113249     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60614-X     Document Type: Note

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